World’s Strangest

This makes the landscape look good, but sooner or later they’ll be penguins roosting in it. Link -via Boing Boing

Penguins can’t fly – just ask any five-year-olds and she’ll tell you that much – but that doesn’t mean that penguins can’t get massive air. Indeed, leaping out of the water to get airborne [...]

Streaming by Ustream Do you love penguins? The you’ll love the Penguin Live cam courtesy of Sea Wold San Diego’s giant penguin enclosure. Just look at those cute little critters! Via io9

Think penguins are all sunshine and rainbows? You haven’t met … the Jerk Penguin from Tokyo Sea Life Park. Perhaps this sort of bullying is why that penguin escaped from the zoo. Hit play or [...]

You can see penguins in zoos all over the world, but to enjoy these birds in their natural habitat, you want to go to where they live. And you don’t have to go to Antarctica. Penguins thrive in twelve nations that are much easier to get to -as far north as Ecuador! Read about each [...]

Two weeks ago, there was a terrible oil spill off the coast of New Zealand. Skeinz, a yarn store in that country, responding by asking people to knit little sweaters for penguins who have been harmed by the oil. So many people around the world made them that Skeinz says that it has all of [...]

(YouTube link) Emperor penguins huddle together to keep warm over winter. They’ve developed their own system for making sure each penguin gets a chance to stand in the middle of the huddle and then rotate to the outside and give another a spot. The result resembles a crowd doing the wave! -via Buzzfeed

Scientist discover penguins’ secret to staying warm in the biting cold of the Antarctic. One glance at a colony of penguins standing together amidst t…

Rolling Penguins Salt & Pepper Shakers – $14.95 We know how tired you are after a long day of work. Behold the Rolling Penguins Salt & Pepper Shakers from NeatoShop. Wind-up these adorable penguins and let the salt and pepper pass themselves. Now you have more energy to do important things like changing the channel. Be sure [...]

Scientists have discovered a special protein in fairy penguins that turns their feathers blue. The fairy penguin may stand only 1 foot tall but it sta…